Duelling guitarist - is it really necessary?

DulcetJones

Philly_Q said:

DulcetJones said:

I witnessed one such duel that was exceptional though.  A band called "The Beat Farmers", an alt country/rock outfit in the 1980's at a bar in Victoria BC.   After several minutes of back and forth melt your face upstaging they took their guitars off and held them together strings to strings and proceeded to rub them up and down the necks, creating a cacophony I will not try to describe, nor will I forget it.  

I wonder if they nicked that idea from Blue Oyster Cult?

That's exactly what it looked like, so probably

Philly_Q

Funkfingers said:

sawyer said:

mirror on the back of that SG?

Chop a line, now.

It's probably something to do with their album Mirrors.  But it could serve a dual purpose...

JayGee

Philly_Q said:

Funkfingers said:

sawyer said:

mirror on the back of that SG?

Chop a line, now.

It's probably something to do with their album Mirrors.  But it could serve a dual purpose...

When I saw them he was using it to bounce lasers around, at one point bursting balloons - pretty sure there must have been some stage trickery involved as even in the innocent days of the early ‘80s bouncing lasers (particularly ones powerful enough to burst balloons) around an auditorium in an in a casual and unconstrained manner would have been frowned upon...

Funkfingers

Philly_Q said:

I wonder if they nicked that idea from Blue Oyster Cult?

Scissor Sisters

Zoolooter

musteatbrain said:

I couldn’t disagree more. I challenge you to a duel!

I'll take that as an insult, see you at dawn!

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49981979312_6ec6526e87_h.jpg

ICBM

Zoolooter said:

I'll take that as an insult, see you at dawn!

That's cheating - you've got two weapons.

Zoolooter

Coup de grace with the Tele.

Kittyfrisk

OK, if we're duelling, you keep your sword, I'll have this 

Dominic

don't take a sword to a gunfight

axisus

er .... what????

JayGee

JayGee said:

Philly_Q said:

Funkfingers said:

sawyer said:

mirror on the back of that SG?

Chop a line, now.

It's probably something to do with their album Mirrors.  But it could serve a dual purpose...

When I saw them he was using it to bounce lasers around, at one point bursting balloons - pretty sure there must have been some stage trickery involved as even in the innocent days of the early ‘80s bouncing lasers (particularly ones powerful enough to burst balloons) around an auditorium in an in a casual and unconstrained manner would have been frowned upon...

Brief glimpse at the very end of this clip...

https://youtu.be/uIZva-ngHM0

...the commentary suggests that they took the original version of the laser show off the road in the late’70s but they were certainly doing something very similar in the early ‘80s when I saw them in Newcastle.

Philly_Q

^^  @JayGee thanks for posting that! 

Trude

axisus said:

er .... what????

Me too - I still don’t really know what this thread is about. Someone please post a clip of a guitarist “duelling” with a backing singer or tambourine guy so I can understand how this looks in practice.

I think to qualify as a duel, both combatants have to be using the same weapon, no?